The purpose of this article is to build a model of interaction between the learner and the teacher, where the teacher performs the role of an Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS). If a teacher in the learning process is replaced with a computer system, it should be equipped with a system to adapt to the learner’s cognitive state. We studied factors that influence the learner’s perception of the in...

The main aim of the project is to develop a new efficient optimization method, called „Teaching–Learning-Based Optimization (TLBO)‟, for the optimization of mechanical design problems. The process of TLBO is divided into two parts. The first part consists of the „Teacher Phase‟ and the second part consists of the „Learner Phase‟. „Teacher Phase‟ means learning from the teacher and „Learner Phas...

Teacher-learner autonomy, by analogy with previous definitions of language learner autonomy, might be defined as the ability to develop appropriate skills, knowledge and attitudes for oneself as a teacher, in cooperation with others. By focusing on the teacher as learner in this manner I do not mean to diminish the importance of ‘being free from constraints on one’s teaching’, i.e. teacher auto...

since ‘the development of whole person’ was brought to the focus of attention by humanist psychologists as a central concern in educational theory, affective variables have been assumed to have a significant share in the learning process that goes on in a pedagogical setting. meanwhile, the process of second language development, because of the very nature of language as a vehicle for communica...

Electronic learning systems and virtual learning environments for education or training are increasingly gaining attention in educational organizations as well as in industry. An important dimension in the evaluation of a virtual learning environment is the assessment of e-learner satisfaction. Critical elements in the assessment procedure are the learner interface, the course content, the acce...

The advent of Internet as a global communication medium has brought a new focus on an area of research in designing Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) that has not been adequately considered so far. In the main, this has been due to the localised nature of most academic environments limiting the sources of information and an implicit assumption that information and knowledge are synonymous. Thes...

A significant share of classroom interaction occurs between teachers and language learners. Therefore, the individual characteristics of teachers could play facilitative or impeding roles thus encouraging or discouraging learners from getting engaged in interaction and meaning negotiation attempts when interacting with their teachers. Surprisingly however, this area has attracted scant attentio...

We present a computational model of language learning via a sequence of interactions be-tween a teacher and a learner. The utterances of the teacher and learner refer to shared sit-uations, and the learner uses cross-situational correspondences to learn to comprehend theteacher’s utterances and produce appropriate utterances of its own. We show that in this modelthe teacher and ...